Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	part_n	scot_n	2,597	5	9.3078	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74878	A brief review of the most material Parliamentary proceedings of this present Parliament, and their armies, in their civil and martial affairs. Which Parliament began the third of November, 1640. And the remarkable transactions are continued untill the Act of Oblivion, February 24. 1652. Published as a breviary, leading all along successiviely, as they fell out in their severall years: so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished. And for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times, which things are brought to passe, that former ages have not heard of, and after ages will admire. A work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649. Several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March.	1652 (1652)	Wing V294A; Thomason E693_2; ESTC R206997	57,270	63

A Brief REVIEW Of the most material Parliamentary Proceedings OF THIS Present Parliament and their Armies in their Civil and Martial Affairs Which Parliament began the third of November 1640. And the remarkable Transactions are continued untill the ACT OF OBLIVION February 24. 1652. Published as a Breviary leading all along successively as they fell out in their severall years So that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage he may turne to the year and so see in some measure in what Moneth thereof it was accomplished And for Information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times which things are brought to passe that former Ages have not heard of and after Ages will admire A Work worthy to be kept in Record and communicated to Posterity Hosea 14. 9. Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho Jenner at the South-entrance of the Royal Exchange 1652. 1 IN the first year of King Charles his Reign a Parliament being called at Oxford two subsidies were granted no grievances removed but the said Parliament soon dissolved 2 The sad effects which the dissolution of this Parliament produced were the losse of Rochell by the unhappy help of Englands Ships 3 The diversion of a most facile and hopefull war from the West-Indies to a most expensive and succelesse attempt on Cales 4 The attempt on the Isle of Ree and thereby a precipitate breach of peace with France to our great losse 5 A peace concluded with Spain without consent of Parliament contrary to a promise formerly made to the Kingdom by King James a little before his death whereby the cause of the Palatinate was altogether most shamefully deserted by us 6 The Kingdom suddenly billetted with Souldiers and a concomitant project set on foot for Germane Horses to force men by fear to fall before arbitrary and tyrannicall taxations continually to be laid upon them 2 Parliament 7 The dissolution of a second Parliament at Westminster in the second year after a declarative grant of no lesse then five Subsidies and the sad issues that flowed to the Kingdom thereupon 8 As first the violent exacting from the people that mighty sum of the 5 Subsidies or a sum equal to it by a Commission for a Royal Loan 9 Many worthy Gentlemen imprisoned and vexed that refused to pay it 10 Great sums extorted by Privy Seals and Excises and the most hopefull Petition of Right blasted 3 Parliament 11 A third Parliament called and quickly broken in the fourteenth year of the King the best Members clapt up close prisoners denied all ordinary and extraordinary comforts of life and so that Paliament was dissolved 12 Opprobrious Declarations published to asperse the proceedings of the last Parliament yea Proclamations set out to those effects thereby extreamly to dis-hearten the Subjects yea and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament or to desire them any more 13 Whence immediatly gushed out the violent inundations of mighty sums of money got by that strange project of Knight-hood yet under a colour of Law 14 The most burthensome Book of Rates the unheard of Taxation of Ship-money the enlargement of Forrests contrary to Magna Charta the injurious taxation of Coat and Conduct money the forcible taking away of the Trained-Bands Arms Ingrossing Gunpowder into their hands in the Tower of London 15 The destruction of the Forrest of Dean which was sold to Papists whence we had all our Timber for Shipping 16 Monopolies of Sope Salt Wine Leather and Sea-Coal yea almost of all things in the Kingdome of most necessary and common use 17 Restraint in Trades and Habitations for refusall of which foresaid heavy pressures many were vext with long and languishing suits some fined and confined to prisons to the loss of health in many of life in some some having their houses broken open their goods seized on their studies or closets searched for writings books and papers to undo them some interrupted also in their Sea-Voyages and their Ships taken from them 18 The crushing cruelties of the Star-Chamber Court and Councel Table where the Recorder of Salisbury was greatly fined for demolishing the Picture of the first person in the Trinity in their great Cathedrall 19 Thus far for the miseries of the Common-wealth Popish Ceremonies Romish Innovations and such like other outrages of the Arch Prelate of Canterbury and his Prelaticall Agents and Instruments over the whole Kingdom in matters of Religion divine worship and spirituall cases of conscience 20 Additions in the Oath administred to the King at his first Inauguration to the Crown by the Arch-Bishop 21 Fines imprisonments stigmatizings mutilations whippings pillories gagget confinements and banishments yea and that into perpetuall close imprisonments in the most desolate remote and as they hoped and intended remotest parts of the Kingdome Mr Burton Mr Bastwick Mr Prin. 22 The ruinating of the Feoffees for buying in of Impropriations and the advancing to Ecclesiasticall Livings Arminians silencing with deprivations degradations and excommunications almost all the most pious Pastors over the Land whom they could catch in their snares and all this under a pretence of peace unity and conformity 23 Printing Presses set open for the Printing and publishing of all Popish and Arminian Tenets but shut up and restrained from Printing sound Doctrines 24 Nay not only thus lamentably molested in England but attempted the like in Scotland indeavouring to impose upon them New Liturgie and a Book of Canons 25 They refusing of them were called and counted Rebels and Traytours yea so proclaimed in all Churches in England and an Army was also raised to oppresse and suppresse them The Arch-Prelate of St Andrewes in Scotland reading the new Service-booke in his pontificaliby assaulted by men Women with Cricketts stooles Stickes and Stones The rising of Prentises and Sea-men on Southwark-side to assault the Arch-bishops of Canterburys House at Lambeth 27 Scotland raising an Army in their own just defence and by force of Arms inforcing their own peace 28 A first pacification being then made by the King and some of his Nobility and ratified under hand and Seal 'twixt them and the Scots yet was it shortly after quite broken off by the Arch-Prelat of Canterbury and the E. of Strafford and burnt by the Hangman at the Exchange 4 Parliament 29 A fourth Parliament was thereupon shortly after called again by those complotters means but to a very ill intent and another Parliament summoned also at the same time by the Earl of Strafford in Ireland both of them only to levy and procure moneys to raise another Army and wage a new War against the Scots 30 The Ships and Goods of Scotland were in all parts and ports of this Land and of Ireland also surprized and seized on for the

King their Commissioners denyed audience to make their just defence to the King and the whole Kingdom of Scotland and England too hereupon much distracted and distempered with leavying of moneys and imprisoning all amongst us that refused the same 31 This Parliament also refusing to comply with the King Canterbury and Strafford in this Episcopal War against the Scots was soon dissolved and broken up by them and thereupon they returned to their former wayes of wast and confusion and the very next day after the dissolution thereof some eminent members of both Houses had their Chambers and Studies yea their Cabinets and very pockets of their wearing cloaths betimes in the morning before they were out of their beds searched for Letters and Writings and some of them imprisoned and a false and most scandalous Declaration was published against the House of Commons in the Kings Name 32 A forced Loan of money was attempted in the City of London to be made a President if it prevailed there for the whole Kingdome but some Aldermen refusing were sorely threatned and imprisoned 33 In which interim the Clergies convocation continuing notwithstanding the dissolution of the Parliament new conscience-opprissing-Canons were forged and a strange Oath with a c. in it was framed for the establishing of the Bishops Hierarchy with severe punishments on the refusers to take it The Oath That I A. B. doe sweare that I doe approve the Doctrine and Discipline or Government established in the Church of England as containing all things necessary to Salvation And that I will not endeavour by my selfe or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish Doctrine contrary to that which is so established Nor will I ever give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes and Arch-Deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand Nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the Sea of Rome And all these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the plaine and common sence and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And this I doe heartily willingly and truly upon the faith of a Christian So help me God in Jesus Christ 34 In this Convocation sore Taxations were also imposed upon the whole Clergie even no lesse than six Subsidies besides a bountifull contribution to forward that intended War against Scotland 35 For the advancing of which said sums for this War the Popish were most free and forward yea and a solemn prayer was composed and imposed by the Bishops on their Ministers every where to be used and read in all Churches against the Scots as rebels and traytors 36 The Papists also in a high measure enjoyed even almost a totall toleration and a Popes Nuncio suffered amongst us to act and govern all Romish affairs yea a kind of private Popish Parliament kept in the Kingdom and Popish Jurisdictions erected among them 37 Commissioners were also secretly issued out for some great and eminent Papists for martiall Commands for levying of Souldiers and strengthening their party with Arms and Ammunition of all sorts and in great plenty 38 His Majesties treasure was by these means so extreamly exhausted and his revenues so anticipated that he was forced to compell as it were his own servants Judges and Officers of all sorts to lend him great sums of money and prisons filled with refusers of these and the other illegal payments yea many High-Sheriffs summoned in the Star-Chamber and to the Councel-board and some of them imprisoned for not being quick enough in levying of Ship-money and such like intolerable taxations 39 In sum the whole Land was now brought into a lamentble and languishing condition of being most miserably bought and sold to any that could give and contribute most of might and malice against us and no hope of humane help but dolour desperation and destruction to be the portion of all 40 In which interim the Scots being entred our Kingdome for their own defence the King had advanced his Royal-Standard at Yorke where the cream of the Kingdom Nobles and Gentry being assembled and a Treaty betwixt the prime of both Armies had at Rippon for a fair and peaceable accommodation the King was at last inforced to take his Nobles councel and in the first place a cessation of Arms agreed on and then this 5th present Parliament the Parliament of Parliaments was necessitously resolved on to begin November 3. 1640. 5 Parliament Anno 1640. Novemb. 3. 41 But behold a desperate plot and design was herein also immediately set on foot to spoyle or poyson it in the very Embrio and constitution of it in the first choyce of the members thereof by Letters from the King Queen Malignant and Popish Earls Lords Knights and Gentry posts into all parts of the Kingdom to make a strong party for them but by admirable divine providence this their plot was counterplotted and frustrated and the Parliament most hopefully congregated and setled 42 Shortly after a very formidable Spanish-Fleet or Armado appeared on our English narrow Seas in sight of Dover and was coming in as was on very strong grounds more then probably conjectured as a third party to help to destroy us the Spaniards hoping that by this time we and the Scots were together by the ears but they were by Gods mercy beaten off from us by our Neighbours of Holland And we fighting against them fought against our friends 43 The Souldiers in their passage to York turn reformers pul down Popish Pictures break down rails turn altars into tables and those Popish Commanders that were to command them they forced to eat flesh on Fridays thrusting it down their throats and some they slew 44 In the time of ours and the Scots Armies residing in the North which was in June 1641. the Malignant Lords and Prelates fearing the effects of this present Parliament complotted together to dissaffect that our English Army against the Parliament and endeavoured to bring it out of the North Southward and so to London to compell the Parliament to such limits and rules as they thought fit Whereupon the Parliament entred upon this Protestation At the beginning of the Parliament July 1641 there was a diligent inquisition after oppressions and oppressors and first upon the Petition of Mistris Bastwick and M●●●●…s Burton two widowed wives and a Petition exhibited in the behalf of Mr Pryn Dr Laighton Mr Smart Mr Walker Mr Foxley Mr Lilburn and many others set at liberty some being banish'd and all close Prisoners others fast fettered in irons and their wives debarr'd from coming to them 45 The Earl of Strafford then Prisoner in the Tower attempted an escape promising to Sir William Belfore then Lieutenant of the Tower twenty thousand pounds and the marriage of his Daughter to Sir Williams Son if he would but consent but Sir William hated such

undertake to do so I may be heard and that I be not hindred from using such lawful and honest means as I shall chuse To conclude let me be heard with freedom honour and safety and I shall instantly break through this cloud of retirement and shall shew my self to be Pater Patriae C. R. A great tumult insurrection and mutiny in London breaking open divers houses and magazines of Arms and Ammunition breaking open divers houses seizing on the Drums Gates Chains and Watches of the City assaulted and shot into the L. Maiors house and killed one of his Guard c. 1648. MAy 16. Surrey Petitioners came to Westminster and made a great shout and cryed Hey for King Charls We will pull the Members out by the Ear●s disarmed two Sentinels knockt them down one Sentinell refusing to be disarmed the Petitioners got within his Arms one of them drew his sword and run him through and the Petitioners drew their swords on the Troopers and said fall on for King Charls now or never but a party of 500 Foot did take some of the Petitioners were slain four or five of the souldiers two The old L. Goring proclaimed General at the head of the Kentish Army upon the Hill neer Alisford consisted of 8000 besides those in Maidstone there were neer 300 slain and about 2300 prisoners many of them taken in the Woods Hop-yards and fields also Gentlemen of good quality there were about 500 Horse 3000 Arms 9 foot Colours and 8 pieces of Canon with store of Ammunition taken Their word at the engagement was King and Kent Ours Truth They being routed marched over Rochester Bridge towards Black-Heath with about 3000 Horse and Foot most Cavaliers Prentises and Watermen and fled over the water into Essex by Woollidge and Greenwich The Duke of Buckingham L. Francis E. of Holland L. Andrew L. Cambden and others rose in Surrey and made Proclamation that they expected the Parl. would have setled the Kingdom but because they have not they would fetch the King and live and dye with him to settle it July 11. 1648. was the surrender of Pembroke Castle The Scots Army of 21000. Invaded England Duke Hambletons Standard had motto Date Cesari Foot Standard for Covenant Religion King and Kingdomes Riseing in Kent Revosting of the Navie Redusing Colchester And Quelling the insurection in Pembroke shire all in 1648 The Scots entring the Kingdom July 11. 1648. Maj. Gen. Lambert sent this Letter to Duke Hammilton MY Lord Having received Information that some Forces of Horse and Foot are marched out of Scotland into this Kingdome under your Excellencies Command I have sent this Bearer unto you desiring to know the truth and intent thereof and whether they are come in opposition to the Forces in these parts raised by the Authority of the Parl. of England and now in prosecution of their Commands I desire your Lordships speedy answer and rest Your Excellencies humble servant J. Lambert Duke Hammiltons Answer NOble Sir I received yours of the 11 of this instant in answer whereunto I shall only say the informa●ion you received is true for according to the Commands of the Committee of Estates of the Parl. of Scotland there are Forces both of Horse and Foot come into this Kingdome under my conduct for prosecution of the ends mentioned in my Letter of the 6. to which I refer you intending to oppose any that are or shall be in Arms for the obstructing those pious loyal and just ends and so remain Hambleton The Town of Colchester delivered up Sir Charls Lucas and Sir Geo Lisle shot to death L. Col. Lilburn revolted at Newcastle declared for the King Sir Arthur Has●erigge storm'd the Castle Lilburns head was set upon a pole June 5. The L. of Warwick went to Portsmouth to bring into obedience the mutinous Sea-men there was with the L. of Warwicke the Phoenix Mary Rose Robert Nonesuch Lilly Lyon Bonadventure Antilope Swift-sure Hector and Fellowship A short Abridgement of the Engagement made by the Common Councell Commanders Souldiers and Commission officers in London WE decla●e to ingage as much as in us l●es to defend the King and Parl from all violence and to the end we may be inabled to perform the same We humbly offer that the Forces in the line may be one entire Militia and no Forces may be raised but by Authority of the said Militia by consent of the Common Councel We desire no Forces in Arms might come within thirty miles of London during the Treaty and for those within what persons soever shall make any tumu't shall be put to death Ordered that the Common Councel men and Commanders shall within their severall Precincts goe from house to house to receive concurrence to the said Ingagement Decemb. 1648. The House having notice of the Kings carrying to Hurst Cast●e voted That the seizing his person was without their advice or consent Dec. 5. The House Voted That his Majesties concessions to their Proposals was ground sufficient to settle the Peace of the Kingdome Dec. 6. Col. Rich and Col. Prides Reg. guarded the Parl. and seized some Members Maj. Gen. Brown Sheriff of London was apprehended Decemb. 12. Dec 13. The House Voted That the Lords and Commons declare they will make no further Addresses to the King nor none shall be by any person whatsoever without leave of he Parl. and if any make breach of this Order they shall incur the Penalty of High Treason and that they will receive no more any Message from the King to both or either Houses of Parl. An Ordinance sent to the Lords for the Triall of the King but they rejected the Commission and adjourned 8 dayes after that they never sate more ●er D●n●y Serj. at Arms to the Commissioners rode into Westminster Hall with the Mace belonging to the House of Commons on his shoulder and some Officers attending him all bare and six Trumpeters on Horseback a guard of Horse and Foot attending in the Pallace yard and Proclamation was made All that had any thing for matter of Fact against Charls Stuart King of England to bring it in to the Commissioners Jan. 19. 1648. That this present Seale of England should be broken in pieces and a new one forthwith made and ordered that the Arms of England and Ireland should be Ingra●en on the one side on the other side a Map of the Parl. with these words in it The first yeare of Freedome by Gods blessing restored 1648. The Charge of the Commons of England against Charls Stuart King of England That the said Ch Stuart being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limitted power to govern by and according to the Lawes of the L●nd and not otherwise and by his Truth Oath and Office being obliged to use the power committed to him For the good and benefit of the people and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties yet nevertheless out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in

head from his Body his Body was put in a Coffin covered with black velvet and removed to his lodging Chamber at White hall An Act prohibiting the Proclaiming of any person to be King of England c. WHereas Charls Stuart King of England being for the notorious Treasons Tyrannies and Murthers committed by him in the late unnaturall and cruell Wars condemned to death Whereupon after Execution of the same severall pretences may be made and Title set on scot unto the Kingly Office to the apparent hazzard of the Publique Peace For the prevention thereof Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever doe presume to Proclaime Declare Publish or any way promote Charls Stuart Son of the said Charls commonly called Prince of Wales or any other Person to be King or chief Magistrate of England or of Ireland or of any the Dominions belonging to them or any of them by colour of Inheritance Succession Election or any other claim whatsoever without the free consent of the people in Parliament first had and signified by a particular Act or Ordinance for that purpose any Statute Law usage or custome to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted and Ordained and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained that whatsoever shall contrary to this Act Proclaim Declare Publish or any way promote the said Charls Stuart the Son or any other person to be King or chiefe Magistrate of England or of Ireland or of any the Dominions belonging to them or to either of them without the said consent in Parliament signified as aforesaid shall be deemed and adjudged a Traytor to the Common-wealth and shall suffer the pains of death and such other punishments as belong to the Crime of High Treason And all Officers as well Civil as Military and all other well affected persons are hereby authorized and required forthwith to apprehend all such offenders and to bring them in safe custody to the next Iustice of the Peace that they be proceeded against accordingly H. Scobel Cler. Parl. D Com. Imprimatur Theodore Iennings The severall speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridge Henry Earl of Holland and Arthur Lord Capel Spoken upon the Scaffold immediately before their Execution on Friday the ninth of March 1649. I Think it is truly not very necessary for me to speak much there are many Gentlemen and Souldiers there that see me but my voice truely is so weake so low that they connot heare me neither truly was I ever at any time so much in love with speaking or with any thing I had to expresse that I tooke delight in it yet this being the last time that I am to doe so by a Divine Providence of Almighty God who hath brought me to this end justly for my sins I shall to you Sir Master Sheriffe declare thus much as to the matter that I am now to suffer for which is as being a Traytor to the Kingdome of England Truly Sir It was a Country that I equally loved with my owne I made no difference I never intended either the generality of its prejudice or any particular mans in it what I did was by the command of the Parliament of the Country where I was borne whose command I could not disobey without running into the same hazard there of that condition that I now am in It pleased God so to dispose that Army under my command as it was ruined and I as their Generall cloathed with a commission stand here now ready to dye I shall not trouble you with repeating of my plea what I said in my owne Defence at the Court of JVSTICE my selfe being satisfied with the commands that is laid upon me and they satisfied with the justness of their Procedure according to the Laws of this Land God is just and howsoever I shall not say any thing as to the matter of the sentence but that I doe willingly submit to his Divine Providence and acknowledge that very many wayes I deserve even a worldly punishment as well as hereafter for we are all sinfull Sir and I a great one yet for my comfort I know there is a God in Heaven that is exceeding mercifull I know my Redeemer fits at his right hand and am confident clapping his hand on his breast is mediating for me at this instant I am hopefull through his free grace and all-sufficient merits to be pardoned of my sins and to be received into his mercy upon that I rely trusting to nothing but the free grace of God through Jesus Christ I have not been tainted in my Religion I thank God for it since my Infancy it hath been such as hath been profest in the Land and established and now it is not this Religion or that Religion nor this or that fancie of men that is to be built upon it is but one that 's right one that 's sure and that comes from God Sir and in the free grace of our Saviour Sir there is truly somewhat that he then observing the Writers said had I thought my speech would have been thus taken I would have digested it into some better method then now I can and shall desire these Gentlemen that doe write it that they will not wrong me in it and that it may not in this manner be published to my disadvantage for truly I did not intend to have spoken thus when I came here There are Sirs terrible aspersions that has been laid upon my self truly such as I thank God I am very free from as if my actions and intentions had not been such as they were pretended for but that notwithstanding what I pretended it was for the King there was nothing lesse intended then to serve him in it I was bred with him for many years I was his domestique servant and there was nothing declar'd by the Parliament that was not really intended by me and truly in it I ventured my life one way and now I lose it another way and that was one of the ends as to the King I speake onely of that because the rest has many particulars and to clear my self from so horrid an aspersion as is laid upon me neither was there any other designe known to me by the in coming of that Army then what is really in the Declaration published His person I doe professe I had reason to love as he was my King and as he had been my Master It hath pleased God now to dispose of him so as it cannot be thought flattery to have said this or any end in me for the saying of it but to free my self from that Calumny which lay upon me I cannot gain by it yet Truth is that which we shall gaine by for ever There hath been much spoken Sir of an invitation into this Kingdome it 's mentioned in that Declaration and truly to that I did and doe remit my self and I have been very much laboured for discoveries

himselfe an unlimited and Tyrannical power to rule according to his will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People yea to take away and make void the foundations thereof and of all redresse and remedy of mis-government which by the fundamentall Constitutions of this Kingdome were reserved on the Peoples behalfe in the Right and Power of frequent and successive Parl. or Nationall meetings in Councels He the sad Ch. Stuart for the accomplishment of such his Designes and for the protecting of himselfe and his adherents in His and Their wicked practises to the same Ends hath traiterously and maliciously levyed War against the present Parl. and the people therein Represented Particularly upon or about the 30 day of June in the year of our Lord 1642. At Beverley in the County of York and upon or about the 30 day of July in the yeare aforesaid in the County of the City of York and upon or about the 24 day of August in the same year at the County of the Town of Nottingham when and where he sat up His Standard of War and also on or about the 23 day of October in the same year at Edge Hill and Keintonfield in the County of Warwick and upon or about the 30 day of Nov. in the same year at Brainford in the County of Middlesex and upon or about the 30 day of August in the year of our Lord 1643. at Cavesham Bridge neer Redding in the County of Berks And upon or about the 30 day of Octob. in the yeare last mentioned at or near the City of Gloucester and upon or about the 30 day of Nov. in the year last mentioned at Newberry in the County of Berks and upon or about the 31 day of July in the year of our Lord 1644. at Cropredy Bridge in the County of Oxon and upon or about the 30 day of Sep. in the year last mentioned at Bodmin and other places neer adjacent in the County of Cornwall and upon about the 30 day of Nov. in the year last mentioned at Newbery aforesaid and upon or about the 8 day of June in the year of our Lord 1645. at the Town of Leicester a●d also upon the 14 day of the same Moneth in the same year at Naseby field in the County of Northampton At which severall times and places or most of them and at many other places in this Land at severall other times within the years afore mentioned And in the year of our Lord 1646. He the said Ch. Stuart hath caused and procured many thousands of the free people of the Nation to be slain and by divisions parties and insurrections within this Land by Invasion from forreign parts endeavoured and procured by him and by many other evill wayes andmeans He the said C. Stuart hath not only maintained and carried on the said War both by Land and Sea during the years before mentioned but also hath renewed or caused to be renewed the said War against the Parliament and good people of this Nation in this present year 1648 in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Middlesex and many other Countries and places in England and Wales and also by Sea and particularly He the said Ch. Stuart hath for that purpose given Commissions to his Son the Prince and others whereby Besides multitudes of other persons many such as were by the Parl. intrusted and imployed for the Nation being by him or his Agents corrupted to the betraying of their trust and revolting from the Parl. have had entertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing of War and Hostility against the said Parl. and people as aforesaid By which cruel and unnatural Wars by him the said Charls Stuart continued and renewed as aforesaid much innocent blood of the Free-people of this Nation hath been spilt many Families have been undone the Publike Treasury wasted and exhausted trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoiled some of them even to desolation And for farther prosecution of his said evill Designes He the said Ch Stuart doth still continue his Commission to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forreigners and to the E. of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further Invasions are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalfe of the said Charls Stuart All which wicked Designes Wars and evil practises of him the said Charls Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the personall interest of will and Power and pretended Prerogative to himself and his Family against the Publique Interest Common Right Liberty Justice and Peace Of the people of this Nation by and for whom he was entrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth That He the said Ch Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said Unnaturall cruell and bloody Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murthers Rapines Burnings Desolations Damage and mischief to this Nation acted or committed in the said Wars or occasioned thereby And the said Iohn Cook by Protestation save on the behalf of the people of England the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other charge against the said Ch Stuart and also of replying to the answers which the said Ch. Stuart shall make to the premises or any charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on the behalf of the said People of England Impeach the said Ch Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick and implacable enemy to the Common-wealth of England and pray That the said Ch Stuart King of England may be put to answer all and every the Premisses that such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgement may be thereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice The Kings last Speech made upon the Scaffold King I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it is my duty to God first and to my Country for to clear my self both as an honest man and a good Christian I shall begin first with my Innocency in troth I think it not very needfull for me to insist long upon this for all the wo●ld knowes I never did begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witnesse to whom I must shortly make an Account that I never did interd for to incroach upon their Priviledges they began upon me it is the Militia they began upon they confest that the Militia was mine but they thought it fit for to have it from me and to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions of their Commissions and mine and likewise

to the Declarations will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles not I so that as for the guilt of these enormous crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of it I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I doe believe that ill instruments between them and me ha's been the cause of all this blood shed so that by way of speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me many times he does pay justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will onely say this That an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me that is so far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man pointing to Dr Iuckson that will bear me witnesse that I have forgiven all the world and those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go farther I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not onely so but that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I do wish with all my soule and I do hope there is some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and will put you in a way first you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is in an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just Cause either for matter of wrong or just Title and then if you go beyond it that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that He was the Great Robber he was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I do think the way that you are in is much out of the way Now Sir for to put you in the way beleive it you will never doe right nor God will never prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order For to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but onely this A Nationall Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when that every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Lawes of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the people and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedome as much as any body whomsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and their Freedome consists in having of Government those Lawes by which their life and their goods may be most their owne It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore untill they do that I mean that you do put the people in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Lawes changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth Sirs I shall not trouble you much longer for I will onely say this to you that intruth I could have desired some little time longer because that I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God that you do take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own Salvation The Bishop of London minding him to say something concerning his Religion King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the World and therefore I declare before you all That I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witnesse it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs excuse me for this same I have a good cause and I have a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col Hacker he said Take care that they do not put me to pain and Sir this and it please you But then a Gentleman coming neer the Ax the King said take heed of the Ax pray take heed of the Ax Then the King speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short Prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to D Iuxon for his night cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner does my heire trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop then the King turning to Dr Iuxon said I have a good cause and a gracious God on my side Dr Iuxon There is but one stage more this stage is turbulent and troublesome it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way it will carry you from Earth to Heaven and there you shall find a great deal of cordiall joy and comsort King I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be Doct. You are exchanged from a temporall to an eternall Crown a good exchange Then the King took off his Cloak and his George giving his George to Dr Iuxon saying Remember 't is thought for the Prince and some other small Ceremonies past after which the King stooping down laid his neck upon the block after a very little pause st●etched forth his hands the Executioner at one blow severed his

fighting and plotting against us on the one hand and the declaring for him on the other should not be an espousing of a Malignant party quarrell or interest but be a meer fighting upon former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdome as hath been these 12. years last past as ye say for the security and satisfaction of Gods people in both Nations or the opposing of which should render us enemies to the godly with you we cannot well understand especially considering That all these Malignants take their confidence and encouragement from the late Transactions of your Kirk and State with your King for as we have already said so we tell you again it is but satisfying security to those that employ us and are concerned in that we seek which we conceive will not be by a few formall and feigned submissions from a person who could not tell otherwise how to accomplish his Malignant ends and therefore councel'd to this complyance by them who assisted his Father and have hitherto acted him in his most evill and desperate Designes and are now again by them set on foot against which how you will be able in the way you are in to secure us or your selves is forasmuch as concerns our selves our duty to look after If the state of your quarrell be thus upon which as you say you resolve to fight our Army you will have opportunity to do that else what means our abode here And if our hope be not in the Lord it will be ill with us We commit both you and our selves to him who knows the heart and tries the Reins with whom are all our ways who is able to doe for us and you above what we know which we desire may be in much mercy to his poor people and to the glory of his own great Name and having performed your desire in making your papers so publique as is before exprest I desire you to doe the like by letting the State Kirk and Army have the knowledge hereof To which end I have sent you inclosed two Copies and rest From the Camp at Pencland Hills 14. August 1654. Your humble servant O. CROMWEL THe Victory at Gladsmore in Scotland 30 and 31. of July 1650. M. G. Montgomery slaine 200 armes taken of the Scots 80. Troopers 400. or 500. wounded 4 Colours 15. Troops totally routed 500. Foot routed at Muscleburrough The Victory at Danbar 30 August 1650. 400. killed upon the place 10000 prisoners 2000 Horse 290 Commission Officers 15000 Arms 200 Colours 32. peices of Ordnance Of ours that ingaged in the Battail 5000 Horse and Foot Their Word The Covenant Our Word The Lord of Hosts who manifested him selfe to be with us Novemb. 1650. Insurrections in Norfolk for which 24 were condemned and 20 executed the other left to mercy Col. Ker routed and taken and the Towne of Ayre Decemb. 25. The strong Castle of Edenburgh delivered up with 53 pieces of Ordnance whereof 15 Iron the rest Brasse about 8000 Arms store of Ammunition and Provision It was the hand of the Lord alone that wrought out and extended such great salvations to us Novemb. 21. A squadron of Ships commanded by Gen. Blague surprised a considerable part of the Portugal Brasil fleet fraughted with Sugar and sent them to England and after pursued the revolted ships and followed them beyond Alligant where they have taken 7 of P. Ruperts fleet and pursued him to Thoulon one of the furthest Havens of France having but two ships left him which hath sounded forth in the ears of Forreigne Princes and States who began to acknowledge that God hath been with the Parliament and Common-wealth of England and both Spain and Portugall have sent their Embassadors to treat with us For all which signall salvations the 30. of Jan. 1650. was set apart and observed as a day of publike Thanks-giving and holy rejoycing in England Wales and Town of Berwick Jan. 1. 1650. The Scots King was crowned at Schone He is Generall of the Army Duke Hamilton Lieut. Gen. of the Scotch Army David Lesley M. Gen. Middleton L. G. of the Scotch Horse and Massey M. G. of the English A Speech made by K. Charles ye-2d-at his Coronation 1. January 1650 I will by gods assistance bestow my life for your defence wishing to live no longer then that I may see this Kingdome flourish in happiness The Oath I doe promise vow in ye presence of ye eternall god yt I will maintaine ye true Kirk of god religion right preaching administration of ye Sacraments now received preached within this Realme in purity And shall abolish gain-stand all falce Religions sects contrary to ye same And shall rule ye people com̄ited to my charge according to ye will of god and laudable laws consti●●tions of ye Realme causing justice equity to be ministred without partiality January 4. 1650. The King of Spaine sent his Embassadour for the acknowledging of this State whose Authority and soveraignty resides in this Parliament of the Common-wealth of England and to stablish and close up a good friendship with this Common-wealth The Portugall sent his Agent also to the like effect March 6. 1650. Sir Henry Hide beheaded at the Exchange for receiving and acting by vertue of a Commission from Charls Stuart the Second and King of Great Britaine France and Ireland as his Agent to the Great Turk with an intent to destroy the Trade of the Turkie Company and the Parliaments interest not onely in Constantinople but in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna in which conspiracies he had a Commission to be a Commissioner and he was likewise to seize upon our Merchants goods for the use of the King of Scotland and procured Audience of the grand Visier and raised great fears and uproars among the Merchants Browne Bushell Beheaded under the Scaffold on Tower-Hill March 29. 1651. for delivering up Scarborough June 2. 1651. The surrender of Silly Islands Insurrection in Cardiganshire 24 June 1651. 40 slain 60 prisoners taken Burnt Island surrendred 29 July 1651. The Scotch King invaded England with 16000 Horse and Foot and a light train of Artillery and caused himselfe to be proclaimed King of England Scotland and Ireland in Lancashire August 22. Charles the First erected his Standard at Notingham and Charles the second erected his Standard the 22 of Aug. at Worcester 1651. September 3. 1651. Old Lesly Crawford Linsey Ogleby with divers of quality besides 300 taken that were making Levies to raise the Siege at Dundee August 2. 1651. St. Johnston surrendred August 19. 1651. The Castle of Sterling surrendred 40 pieces of Ordnance 27. faire brasse pieces 2 great iron guns 11 leather guns provision of meal to serve 500 men about twelve months 40 or 50 Barrels of Beef about five hundred Armes new Muskets and Pikes twenty six Barrels of Powder 20 or 30 vessels of Claret wine strong-waters great store of match and other ammunition

to promote the Agreement betweene the King and the Scots where by the way I desire humbly to give notice That this was the first and onely meeting of this nature and for this end at my house that I know of At this meeting M. Drake tooke cut some papers out of his pocket written in Characters which he read in my study what he read went under the name of a Commission and Instructions as he termed it to be sent to the Lord Willoughby Alderman Bunce Massey Graves and Titus to appoint them to advise with and use their interests in persons of Honour about the King to provoke him to agree with the Scots and to take the Covenant as also to advise with the Scots Commissioners and perswade them That in their agreement with their King they would have speciall respect to the interest of Religion and terms of the Covenant the Commission ran in this form as if it were in the names of all the Presbyteriall party in England After I heard it read I expressed my selfe against it alledging severall Reasons chiefly That it was an Act of high presumption for private persons to send a Commission with instructions and an act of notorious falshood to say this was in the name of the Presbyteriall party of England when none but a few persons knew thereof that I know of Many in the company did expresse a dislike thereof as well as my selfe M. Drake did also read a Letter in this meeting but to whom it was I know not neither know I the Contents of it I was at least a dozen times called out of the Room whiles the Company were there met so that I am not able to give so full and particular an accompt of the Contents of the Letter and of the Commission and Instructions What M. Drake did about the Commission and Instructions after he was gone from my house I know not what he sent away I know not nor did I know by whom it was sent away untill Maj. Alford declared before the High Court That he received the Papers from M. Drake carried them to Gravesend and delivered them to one Mason whose face I never saw and he carried them to Holland There was present at this meeting Major Huntington who was never at my house before nor since whose face I never saw before nor since but at my Tryall M. Drake D. Drake M. Jackson M. Jenkins M. Cauton Maj. Alford M. Gibbons Maj. Adams Cap. Farr and my selfe with some others whom I cannot remember There is one thing more I make bold to mention That there are other persons besides those I have named who did now and then come to these meetings at my house as M. Robinson M. Nalton M. Haviland M. Blackmore Col. Vaughan Col. Sowton these were also present at one time or another but at what particular meeting I cannot positively say Thus I have clearly laid open the whole matter of Fact so far as I well remember and distinctly know of Passages about these Meetings and Transactions at my house From the Tower of London July 22. 1651. I attest the truth of this Narrative under my hand Christopher Love Mr. Love's Speech made on the Scaffold on Tower-hill August 22. 1651. BEloved Christians I am this day made a Spectacle unto God Angels and Men and among them I am made a grief to the godly a laughing-stock to the wicked and a gazing stock to all yet blessed be my God not a terror to my self although there be but a little between me and death yet this bears up my heart there is but a little between me and Heaven It comforted Dr Taylor the Martyr when he was going to Execution That there were but two stiles between him and his Fathers House there is a lesser way between me and my Fathers house but two steps between me and glory it is but lying downe upon the block and I shall ascend upon a Throne I am this day sailing towards the Ocean of Eternity through a rough passage to my Haven of rest through a red Sea to the promised Land Methinks I hear God say to me as he did to Moses Goe up to Mount Nebo and die there so goe thou up to Tower-hill and dye there Isaac said of himself That he was old and yet he knew not the day of his death but I cannot say thus I am young and yet I know the day of my death and I know the kind of my death also and the place of my death also it is such a kind of death as two famous Preachers of the Gospel were put to before me John the Baptist and Paul the Apostle they were both beheaded yee have mention of the one in Scripture story and of the other in Ecclesiasticall History And I read in the 20 of the Revelations and the 4. The Saints were beheaded for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus But herein is the disadvantage which I am in in the thoughts of many who judge that I suffer not for the word or for Conscience but for medling with State-matters To this I shall briefly say That it is an old guise of the Devil to impute the cause of Gods peoples sufferings to be Contrivements against the State when in truth it is their Religion and Conscience they are persecuted for The Rulers of Israel they would put Jeremiah to death upon a Civill account though indeed it was onely the truth of his Prophesie made the Rulers angry with him yet upon a Civill account they did pretend he must dye because he fell away to the Chaldeans and would have brought in forreign forces to invade them The same thing is laid to my charge of which I am as innocent as Ieremiah was I find other instances in the Scripture wherein the main causes of their sufferings were still imputed to meddling with State-matters Paul though he did but preach Jesus Christ yet he must dye if the people might have their will under the pretence that he was a mover of sedition Upon a civill account my life is pretended to be taken away whereas indeed it is because I pursue my Covenant and will not prostitute my Principles and Conscience to the ambition and lusts of men Beloved I am this day to make a double exchange I am changing a Pulpit for a Scaffold and a Scaffold for a Throne and I might add a third I am changing this numerous multitude the presence of this numerous multitude upon Tower-hill for the innumerable company of Angels in the holy hill of Zion and I am changing a guard of Souldiers for a guard of Angels which will receive me and carry me into Abrahams bosome This Scaffold is the best Pulpit I ever preached in for in the Church Pulpit God through his grace made me an instrument to bring others to Heaven but in this Pulpit he will bring me to Heaven These are the last words that I shall speak in this world and it may be

The Scottish King came hither on Munday the last of October new style and being demanded by his Mother and the Duke of Orleans how he escaped the Fight of Worcester gave them this account That about six a clock in the evening his Army being in all likelihood beaten he quitted Worcester Towne with a party of Horse and marched toward Lancashire but being fearfull of being pursued and likewise of some of the Scotish Officers that might deliver him up he with my Lord Wilmot quitted their Horses sent the party of Horse upon their march and betook themselves the second dayes march from Worcester into a Tree where they remained untill night and then marched on foot that night the third day they took sanctuary in a wood and night approaching marched on towards Lancashire where they were received by a Lady who furnished them with Cloaths for a Disguise and cut off their haire very short Having reposed two or three dayes the Lady resolved to endeavour to ship them out of England to which purpose she riding behind the King and Wilmot as another servant by they went to Bristoll but finding a narrow and hot inquiry there resolved to go for London where they stayed three weeks The King one day went into Westminster-Hall where he saith he saw the States-Arms and Scots Colours my Lord Wilmot procured a Merchant to hire a ship of forty Tuns to transport them which cost them a hundred and twenty pounds but where they took shipping is not yet knowne but as soon as my Lord was entred the Barque and the King as his servant the Master of the Vessel came to my Lord and told him That he knew the King and told him that in case it should be knowne he could expect no mercy which saying troubled them but at length what with money and promises they prevailed and so set faile for Havre de Grace where they landed and from thence to Roven where they cloathed themselves and writ to Paris His arrivall there will put them to new Counsels since now they cannot send their Embassadors which was concluded on before his coming The Duke of Orleans fetched him into Towne and expressed much as to serve him Yesterday he with Thurenne Beaufort the Duke of Guise came to him to the Louvre where the King told them that they should endeavour to reconcile the breach between the Prince and the King of France for said he to my knowledge the English will visit you with an Army in the Spring The Executing of the Earl of Darby at Bolton in Lancashire Octob. 15. 1651. The Isle of Jersey taken Octob. 30. Nov. 16. The Isle of Man taken Resol. That the time for the continuance of this Parliament beyond which they resolve not to sit shall be Nov. 3. 1654. The Parliament of the Common-wealth of England Declare 1 THat no Power Jurisdictions or Authority derived from by or under Charles Stewart who pretended himselfe King of Scotland or any of his Predecessors or any otherwise then from the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England be used exercised or enjoyned within Scotland or the Isles or any of their Territories thereof 2 That they doe forbid annull and make void the use and exercise of any Power Jurisdiction and Authority whatsoever within Scotland or the Isles or any of the Territories thereof other then such as shall be derived from the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England February 24. 1651. An Act of generall Pardon and Oblivion THe Parliament of England having had good experience of the affections of the people to this present Government by their ready assistance in the defence thereof against Charls Stuart Son of the late Tyrant and the forces lately Invading this Nation under his command and being much afflicted with the miserable and sad effects which the late unnaturall War hath produced and resolved next to the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ to make no other use of the many victories the Lord hath in mercy vouchsafed unto them then a just settling of the peace and freedome of this Common-wealth and being most desirous that the minds persons and estates of all the people of this Nation might be composed setled and secured and that all rancor and evill will occasioned by the late differences may be buryed in perpetuall Oblivion Be it enacted by this present Parliament and by authority of the same That all and every person or persons of or within the Common-wealth of England the Isles of Jersey and Gernsey and the Towne of Barwick upon Tweed and the heires executors and administrators of them and every of them and all and singular bodies in any manner incorporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Townes Villages Hamblets and Tithings and every of them are and shall be and are by the Authority of this Parliament acquitted Pardoned released and discharged as against the Parliament the keepers of the liberties of England by Authority of Parliament or any or other of them of all manner of Treasons Fellonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Misdemeanors Forfeitures Sequestrations Penalties and sums of moneys pains of Death pains corporall or pecuniary and generally of all other things causes quarrels fines judgements and executions had made committed suffered or done before the third day of September 1651. not in this present Act hereafter not excepted nor foreprized And the said Keepers of the Liberties of England by the Authority of this present Parliament granteth and freely giveth acquitteth pardoneth releaseth and dischargeth to every of the persons and to every of the said Bodies corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them all goods debts chattels fines issues profits Amercements forfeitures which to the said keepers of the liberties of England do or shal belong or appertain by reason of any offence contempt trespasse entery misdeameanors matter cause sequestration or quarrell had suffered done or committed by them or any of them before the said third day of September and which be not hereafter in this Act foreprized and excepted And it is further Enacted that this pardon by these generall words clauses and sentences before rehearsed shall be reputed deemed adjudged expounded allowed and taken in manner of Courts of Justice or else-where most beneficiall and available to all and singular the persons bodies corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them And if any person or persons c. shall be in any wise arrested attached distrained summoned or otherwise vexed c. for or because any thing acquitted pardoned released or discharged by vertue of this Act that every person so offending and being thereof lawfully convicted by sufficient Testimony shall yeeld and pay for recompence to the party so grieved or offended thereby his or their treble dammages and forfeit ten pounds to the keepers of the Liberties of England Excepted and always foreprized out of this general free pardon all and all manner of High-treasons other then for words only and all Levying of war rebellions insurrections and all Conspiracies and Confederacies Traiterously had committed and done against the Parliament or the keepers of the Liberties of England either within or without the limits of this Common-wealth since the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord 1648. And all misprisions and concealements of the said offences or any of them or the abettimg ayding procuring of them or any of them And also excepted all manner of voluntary murthers petty treasons and wilfull poysoning all piracies and robberies upon the Seas and the Abettors thereof All buggeries rapes and ravishments and wilfull taking away and marrying of any maid widow or daughter against her will And also except all persons now attainted or outlawed of or for petty treason Murther or wilfull poysoning conjurations witchcrafts charmes wrongfull detainments of any the customes and all Sequestrations and sums of money due upon compositions excise or new-impost And also excepted all conditions and covenants and all penalties and forfeitures due to the Parliament or the late King since the 30. of January 1648. And also all first fruits and tythes and all offences and misdemeanours whereof any sentence or judgement hath been given in Parliament since the 30 of January 1648. And all offences of Bribery perjuries and subordination of witnesses counterfeiting deeds debenters bils of publick faith escripts or writings whatsoever and all offences touching the carrying sending or conveying over the Seas any gold silver Jewels or any coyne And all other offences in the unlawfull buying selling exchanging or melting downe of any Gold silver or Bullion or the transporting beyond the Seas of auy Guns shot or Gun-mettle And all offences in detaining or imbezling any the goods moneys or chattels of the late King and Queen And except all fines and amercements lost imposed or assessed And all offences committed by any Jesuite or Seminary priest contrary to the Statuts in that case Provided and except any outlawries upon any writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum and all except persons as were the 28●h of January 1651 in prison or otherwise constrained of liberty by immediate commandement warrant or direction of Parliament or Councell of State And also excepted all informations and proceedings concerning common high wayes and all forfeitures of any goods or merchandize prohibited to be exported or imported All-Fee-farme Rents Rents service Rents charge and Rents seck and all arrerages due since the 24th of June 1647. And all moneys imprested since the third of November 1638. Provided that all acts of Hostility and injuries whether between the late King and the Lords and Commons in Parliament or between any of the people of this Nation which did arise upon any Action Attempt Assistance Councel or Advice having relation to or falling out by reason of the late troubles that the same and whatsoever hath ensued thereon whether trenching upon the Lawes and Liberty of this Nation or upon the Honour and Authority of Parliament or to any particular person shall in no time after the 18th of June 1651 be called in question FINIS